Some hospitals are no safer today than they were 10 years ago, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In 1999, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report revealed that medical errors cause as many as 98,000 deaths and more than 1 million injuries per year. Researchers have found that despite efforts to ensure patient safety in the years since the report was published, those rates have remained largely unchanged.

‘We were disappointed but not very surprised [by the results],